Izo
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Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
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Just finished BG1:EE. Gotta say that The Black Pits was awesome. Leveled up all 6 chars to 10th and looking forward to porting them into BG2:EE.
Funny thing playing through it too, I kept thinking... wow, over a decade later, and still nothing in the CRPG realm has come close to topping this
Loving BG2:EE as well. Given how old the game is and the isometric style, how long before the indie developers consider it cool enough to start making games like that again?
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It's a lot harder to make a good old school RPG, regardless of the isometric and sprite based graphics. The key is the story, the character developement and the dialogues, which probably would take a fuckton more time than just making another procedurally generated rogue-like game or platformers or metroidvania-likes and stuff like that. Even if you did do it, nothing says it'd be near as good as baldur's gate or even dragon age 1 because it's all on the writers to make it good.
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Don't forget, BG2 was a AAA title when it was released... Sure, it looks like an "indie" game nowadays, but you can't just make that massive amount of 2d artwork OR textures/models without a fairly large art-team. Not to mention, 2d art is completely different than the 3d modeling/texturing that most artists are trained/familiar with these days. BG2 is/was absolutely beautiful and there is a huge amount of art/detail involved.
Sir Funk
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I just love the DnD classes and settings. Too many companies feel the need to do something different just to be different and it affects their games negatively. I know there are many people who will say the opposite--that they don't want to play in a "generic" fantasy world, but I love seeing the staples of the various DnD settings and don't want too much variation from my fantasy games.
^ Yeah I kickstarted Wasteland 2, Torment, and Eternity. Wasteland 2 is essentially Fallout 1/2/Tactics successor. Torment and Eternity should be Baldur's Gate successors.
Kreugen
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Does EE allow things like the old developer mod that made all of the ToB bosses harder? (especially demogorgon.. beating him without trap sploit was no joke) Have other mods been ported to it?
In other words, is the EE any better than BG1/2 with the various thid party fixes and engine enhancements?
In other words, is the EE any better than BG1/2 with the various thid party fixes and engine enhancements?
Nirgon
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Never played any of these games because I'm a filthy, heathen skeptic but got BG EE 2.
Had to do some shit with running this installer that comes in one of the folders to get it not to crash on load.
Plays like XCOM tactical kinda (manual pausing which I like but can configure to pause after spell casts/enemy/hero deaths) but with tanks, healer, caster, rogues. Portrait packs are legit.
So far I'm really enjoying it. They aren't afraid to throw you a nasty boss/situation early. I've missed games that made me have to really try and think.... you know that whole rewarding experience shit that people find to be so frustrating/bad design these days.
Had to do some shit with running this installer that comes in one of the folders to get it not to crash on load.
Plays like XCOM tactical kinda (manual pausing which I like but can configure to pause after spell casts/enemy/hero deaths) but with tanks, healer, caster, rogues. Portrait packs are legit.
So far I'm really enjoying it. They aren't afraid to throw you a nasty boss/situation early. I've missed games that made me have to really try and think.... you know that whole rewarding experience shit that people find to be so frustrating/bad design these days.
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Playing an evil party BG2:EE game. Here is my party.
- Created character is a tanky Blackguard w/2handers
- Korgen- Berserker duel wielding Axes
- Mazzy- w/Tasheron's short bow+3 unlimited arrows
- Jan- Mage buffs/debuffs/dispels and maxed out find traps/pick locks
- Edwin- with full on damage spells and summons
- Viconia- with priest buffs, cures, and mass healing spells
Indeed it is. Viconia/Edwin is the best divine/arcane caster set in the game so anything after that is really just icing on the cake.
I've been on a huge classic RPG DnD kick lately. Over the last couple of months I've played through BG: EE, NwN SOTU and HOTU, and NWN2 OC. Still have NWN2 MOTB and BG2: EE to plow through. I'm also thinking of grabbing Planescape off of GoG once I finish those last two. Wondering how well its UI and graphics hold at this point.
I've been on a huge classic RPG DnD kick lately. Over the last couple of months I've played through BG: EE, NwN SOTU and HOTU, and NWN2 OC. Still have NWN2 MOTB and BG2: EE to plow through. I'm also thinking of grabbing Planescape off of GoG once I finish those last two. Wondering how well its UI and graphics hold at this point.
That group is already tits, but if you dropped Mazzy for Dorn then omfg. But your main is a blackguard, so, yeah.
Raign
Golden Squire
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Also do TOEE with the circle of eight pack. Go won't be disappointed!
Hatorade
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You can patch and mod it HD very easily and yes it is amazing. I pissed off the red lizard in town and now I have to run away(for now)